Fontaine de la République

Republic Fountain

Description

Cast-iron statue of the Republic, represented as a woman with in her righ hand a bundle of lightnings with the words droits de l'homme and in her left hand a fasces (symbol of power and jurisdiction). The statue stands on an hexagonal base with three putti on dolphins spouting water in the basin below.

Inscription(s)

republique
française
—
liberte
egalite
fraternite
1887

Signed: (statue) C. Capellaro 1886
(on the statue as well as on the putti) a. durenne / sommevoire